The Vice President of the Senate, Robert Cazanciuc, stated on Tuesday that Romania has a Constitution that today is „only partially validated” by those „almost 35 years old”, and certain constitutional texts are written for „an ideal world”.
„Looking at the 1991 Constitution today, we can say at least two things that define it: its authors were, on the one hand, tributaries of the society in which they had been professionally formed and trained, and on the other hand, they dreamed of building a new world, of which they could only glimpse its outlines, but they did not fully understand either the dialectic of the sources of power or the contradictory dynamics of the social interests that were to manifest themselves in society. Therefore, I could say that certain constitutional texts are written for an ideal world, for someone who is required to „exercise their constitutional rights and freedoms in good faith”, but which, in reality, also allow for improvisation or even whim. We have a Constitution that today is only partially validated by its almost 35 years of existence,” declared Cazanciuc, at the opening of the proceedings of the 10th Congress of the Association of Francophone Constitutional Courts (ACCF), which takes place in Bucharest, at the Palace of Parliament.
He added that at this moment, one can discuss in an academic setting a fundamental law that would have the citizen at its center.
„Because we are not in a political framework and we can speak openly about the moment of birth of a new fundamental law, I could say that today we find ourselves, at least theoretically, in a constitutional moment when we are freed from the objective constraints of the political situation of 1989, when the fundamental law was designed to protect, first and foremost, the Romanian state. Because in 1989 people died so that they could think and live without fear of constraints, in 2025 we can discuss in an academic framework about a fundamental law that has at its center the citizen, with his fundamental rights and freedoms and with a state truly capable of protecting them,” said Cazanciuc.
The Vice President of the Senate also listed a series of ideas regarding the revision of the Constitution.
„In my opinion, a broad revision of the Constitution or the drafting of a Constitution must start from several fundamental ideas, namely a clear understanding of the role of the Romanian state in the European and global geo-political context, from a political, military and economic point of view; knowledge of the current development needs of the nation and the perspective of their evolution in the coming decades; understanding the psychosocial profile of the people; knowledge of the political and ideological trends manifested in Europe and in the world (the danger of extremist policies and movements, the danger of various challenges to constitutional democracy); the degree of assimilation of European political values by European nations; the relationships between the human being and contemporary technological development and the trends in the evolution of Artificial Intelligence; the state’s responsibility for preserving the environment and the rational and prudent use of natural wealth and resources in the national interest,” according to the quoted source.
The opening ceremony of the congress was also attended by Marian Enache, President of the Constitutional Court of Romania, Aminata Ly Ndiaye, Vice-President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal and President of the ACCF, Georges Nakseu Nguefang, Advisor to the Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie, Robert Cazanciuc, Vice-President of the Senate, Corina Alina Corbu, President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ), Mattias Guyomar, President-elect of the European Court of Human Rights, Koen Laenarts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Alex Florin Florenta, Prosecutor General of Romania.
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